The Rise of Local Cinema: How Nigerian Cinemas are Rebuilt on Indigenous Films

The Rise of Local Cinema: How Nigerian Cinemas are Rebuilt on Indigenous Films

For over a decade, conversations about cinema revolved around Hollywood imports: tentpoles,  superheroes, franchise spectacles, and the billion-naira weekends they reliably drove.   The last five years have indeed redrawn the theatrical map. Local content, once considered supplementary, has  become the stabilizing backbone of the Nigerian cinema business. In some quarters, it is more than  just a cinema business; it’s the differentiator, the eng…